'Peek-a-boo, my little one': Russia mocks American spy drone as footage 'shows warplane performing "dangerous pass" of $17m US Reaper over Syria' The clip shows a Russian Sukhoi Su-30 fighter close to a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone Pro-Kremlin newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta mocked the spy and attack craft The clip was posted online by someone claiming to be a Russian military pilot By Will Stewart and Tim Stickings For Mailonline Published: 14:42 BST, 9 May 2019 | Updated: 14:45 BST, 9 May 2019 Viewcomments This is the moment a Russian warplane flies perilously close to an American spy drone in footage thought to have been filmed over Syria. The clip shows one of Moscow's Sukhoi Su-30 fighters making a 'dangerous pass' close to an American MQ-9 Reaper drone. Pro-government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta mocked the $17million spy and attack drone with the headline: 'Peek-a-boo, my little one'. The footage was posted online by someone who claims to be a Russian military pilot. In it, the Russian fighter approaches its American counterpart from behind and from a lower altitude. The drone's cameras mean that the Russian flypast would have been spotted by remote controllers. Western watchers said the Kremlin's plane had carried out a 'dangerous pass'. The Kremlin has refused to say when or where the near-miss took place but the 'pilot' who shared the video has claimed it shows the two aircraft in Syria. The Reaper drone, which has a 66-foot wingspan and a cruising speed of around 230mph, came into operation with the U.S. Air Force in 2007. 'Dangerous pass': A Russian warplane flies perilously close to an American spy drone in footage thought to have been filmed over Syria Its weapons include AGM-114 Hellfire missiles and GBU-38 Joint Direct Attack Munitions. According to the Pentagon it is 'designed to execute time-sensitive targets with persistence and precision, and destroy or disable those targets'. The unmanned aircraft can be disassembled and transported, and can carry out mission including border and coastal surveillance and weapons tracking. The U.S. Air Force says it can 'acquire and pass real-time imagery data to ground users around the clock'. Near miss: The American drone is seen through the window of what is claimed to be a Russian military plane, which approaches its U.S. counterpart from behind Moscow is on the side of Syria's President Assad in the country's civil war while Donald Trump has vowed to pull out most American troops. Russia and the U.S. have both fought against ISIS and have tried to keep their air operations out of each other's way. However, U.S. envoy James Jeffrey said last year that Russian and American forces had clashed several times. 'There have been various engagements, some involving exchange of fire, some not,' he said in November 2018. 'We are continuing our mission there and we are continuing to exercise our right of self-defense.' Share or comment on this article: All rights reserved for this news site dailymail and under his responsibility